^{page 43 note 1} Vol. 100 (1942), pp. 107 ff.

^{page 43 note 2} London, 1949, pp. 159–164.

^{page 43 note 3} Hamilton 2, published by Beeston, A. F. L., “Two Shabwa inscriptions,” Le Muséon, tom. 60 (1947), pp. 53–5 and plate iGoogle Scholar.

^{page 43 note 4} Geogr. Jnl., 100, pp. 113 ff., and especially p. 116.

^{page 43 note 5} loc. cit., p. 112.

^{page 43 note 6} p. 115.

^{page 43 note 7} Plate facing p. 115.

^{page 43 note 8} Plate 14.

^{page 45 note 1} Kingdom of Melchior, p. 163.

^{page 45 note 2} Geogr. Jnl., p. 115. It may be queried whether the description of the material used for this decoration as “plaster” is quite correct; all the specimens of it which are now in Oxford seem to be executed in a very soft friable siltstone or limestone (see below, pp. 49–50).

^{page 45 note 3} Kingdom of Melchior, p. 163.

^{page 45 note 4} See Beeston, , “Two Shabwa Inscriptions,” p. 53 and plate iGoogle Scholar.

^{page 45 note 5} Geogr. Jnl., p. 123.

^{page 46 note 1} Altsyrim, figs. 1301–1310.

^{page 47 note 1} The blue tinting found on several of these pieces is presumably indigo, a pigment specially popular among the inhabitants of Hadramaut to the present day.

^{page 47 note 2} op. cit., figs. 1297, 1299, 1300.

^{page 50 note 1} von Wissmann, H. and Höfner, M., “Beiträge zur historischen Geographic des vorislamischen Südarabien” (Wiesbaden, 1953), plate xiiGoogle Scholar.

^{page 50 note 2} Von Wissmann and Höfner, op. oit., plate x, fig. 16.

^{page 51 note 1} Hist, nat., xii, 63.

^{page 52 note 1} See Ryckmans, J., L'institution monarchique en Arabie méridionale avant l'Islam (Louvain, 1951), p. 56Google Scholar.

^{page 52 note 2} Ryckmans, G., Les noms propres sudsimitigues (Louvain, 1934), tom, i, p. 304Google Scholar.

^{page 52 note 3} Institution monarchique, p. 178.

^{page 52 note 4} Vetus Testamentum, ii, p. 287.

^{page 52 note 5} In a personal communication to me.

^{page 53 note 1} Rhodokanakis, Studien, ii (SAWW 185/3, 1917), p. 23.

^{page 53 note 2} Qāmūs: nazaḥa ba'uda… wal-nazīḥu l-ba'idu… wa nuziḥa bihi ba'uda'an diyārihi gaibatan ba'īdatan.

^{page 56 note 1} Altsabäische Texte, i (SAWW 206/2, 1927), p. 69, note 6.

^{page 56 note 2} See B.A.S.O.R., 119, p. 14.

^{page 56 note 3} Le Muséon, tom. 60.

^{page 57 note 1} Grohmann, A., Göttersymbole und Symboltiere auf südarabischen Denkmälern (Wien, 1914), pp. 6 sqqGoogle Scholar.

^{page 58 note 1} The Corpus rendering here is mistaken, being based on the idea that tḥrb means “war”; but tḥrh is a cult-term, as was rightly seen by Mordtmann, and Mittwoch, , Sabäische Inschriften (Hamburg, 1931), p. 223Google Scholar.

^{page 58 note 2} See Beeston, A. F. L., “Notes on old-South-Arabian lexicography, iv,” Le Muséon, tom. 65, p. 145Google Scholar.

^{page 59 note 1} In RES 3610, 9, Lidzbarsky, (Ephemeris für semitische Epigraphik, 3, p. 213)Google Scholar took 'šft as a plural noun, which could perhaps imply a radical t (though not necessarily: it could also be, e.g. a plural of measure' af'ilat from a geminate root); Ryckmans, G., on the other hand (Noms propres, i, 272), following Jaussen and Savignac, interprets it as a proper nameGoogle Scholar.

^{page 59 note 2} Cf. CIH. 74, 16, ḥg/'lm/bhw/l'lm “according to the sign wherewith he was instructed”; ibid., 3, ḥgn/wqhhmw “as He commanded them”.

^{page 60 note 1} Altsabāische Texte, ii (WZKM., 39), p. 203, note 14.

^{page 61 note 1} e.g. RES 461, 3884 bis. Possibly we should also class Jamme 348 as an “Ausanian” type, since along with s-forms it shows several Sabseisms, to which I have called attention in my review of Jamme's, work (Le Muséon, tom. 66, p. 178)Google Scholar.